Clock is always wrong, irritating

[jpetticrew]

Does it sync the time when you connect to your computer with iTunes?

I read somewhere that this is what it's SUPPOSED to do, but there's a bug and it doesn't.

 

[Dr McKay]

Me and my friend have iPhone 4's on the same phone network (O2), my Windows Laptop and his MBP time are both synced to time.Europe.apple.com, yet my iPhone is 7 minutes faster than his, both time settings in automatic, they can't be syncing time from our computers, because our computers have the same time.

One of lifes great mysteries

 

[Piggie]

What with the recent Alarm clock bug on the iPhones, I hope Apple never considers going into the iClock or iWatch business.

Obviously a weak point of there's

 

[LaughingAtYou]

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I think its an iOS problem. It happens to my iPhone 4 too. =/

 

[Piggie]

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I think its an iOS problem. It happens to my iPhone 4 too. =/

It's a bit annoying that they spend time messing about with the orientation lock, and other things and yet totally ignore that the clock is not being sync'd when on WiFi or is not accurate in the 1st place.

One would think if they want to be taken serious as a business tool, at least get the basics sorted.

 

[Nothlit]

Yeah, my 3G iPad does the same thing when I turn cellular data off (as I often do in order to avoid those annoying "You don't have a data plan!" prompts which keep coming up even when I'm on Wi-Fi). You'd think it would be trivial for Apple to include an NTP client in iOS.

 

[zorinlynx]

Not entirely on-topic but I must share the hilarious clock problems I had with my Palm Pre before I upgraded to the iPhone 4.

I'd frequently turn it on to check the time and it would say 3:05 for a moment, then jump back to 3:04 immediately.

Sometimes the alarm would go off in the morning, I'd turn the alarm off and it would immediately go off again because the clock skewed back one minute.

This is insane; A decade into the new millennium and companies can't get freaking CLOCKS right. My vintage 1983 clock radio seems to do a better job sometimes! In fact as long as the power doesn't go out, it stays on PERFECT time for months at a time with no external time reference!

Thankfully my iPhone doesn't seem to have any issues but I can understand how maddening clock issues are.

 

[scbrain]

Problem Exists for my iPod Touch 4G

Just wanted to say that the clock in my iPod Touch 4G has the same problem. I always thought it automatically synced with the internet, but in resetting the clock, I saw that this is not true.